Blightravens are the Warphawk's answer to the horrors of Imperial servitoring, and a testimony of their Heretech's greatest offense against the will of the Emperor.

Constrained even by the titanic productive capabilities of their Forgebarge, "Ruch", the renegade guard's Mechanicus, in order to save human lives and yet still produce working robotics, have ventured into the the most restricted area of Imperial knowledge. Dipping into the pool of chaotic energies, these sages have ripped from the Warp the knowledge on how to produce AI's - true artifical intellgence, just slightly infested by the daemon.

Blightraves, unlike any other complex calculating Imperial tech, lack organic components. They are truely mechanical, but there is more than electricity that powers the data-cores of their processors - a hunger to observe, hunt and kill. Blightravens are immune to human error, extreme conditions and other problems that plague Imperial units, making them cold and effective machines, that are intelligent enough to skew orders in favor of an opportunity.

Using scraps from Tau drone-producing factories, the Warphawks managed to start mass production of these light, agile recoinssance/assault unites, and their battle tests were stellar. The Mechanicus warn the traitor generals that the technology is yet to be scaled further onto larger jets or tanks. While devastating, a drone is a drone. And these machines have a will of their own.----

UAVs are an excellent strategy for keeping pilots (and other military personnel) out of harms way, but everyone has the notion that Skynet is going to happen because some drones are autonomous (Like the Global Hawk, but that one is unarmed).

My guess is that it's the hysteria that the government is spying on the people (When hasn't it done that), and that the machines can kill on their own. Which is obviously not true due to the fact that we haven't developed complicated thinking/Self aware AIs (And we won't for a while.)

Plus the development of them have helped in various other fields than just the military.

UAVs are awesome though, especially the X-47B, I mean landing by itself on the carrier? Pretty frickin' sweet.

there's a bit of an A10 look in it but thanks to the rockets its clearly a small scale jet. Its the little things to work so well i think in your work.it is however missing some sort of long-use weapon,maybe a pair of simple chin mounted bolters or a side-mounted autocannon,both to tie it up in the 40k world but also for a slight weapon diversity on the field (strafe runs or hunting Sentinels or light open-top vehicles).

See I think this is a lot more practical amongst traitor IG than the continuous hammy sorcerer summoning of daemonic machinery. It actually shows unmanned yet manned application that would also make better for striking instead of the OMGCHAOSBUTTSEKS approach of daemonic taint.